History teachers are going to avoid teaching about Trump just like they limit what they teach about John Tyler, James Buchanan and Andrew Johnson.
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What they need to teach about both Hitler and Trump is the slow path that lead us here. Most what I've read focuses on the path to Hitler's end, not the road that got him there.
aug 30, 2025, 3:33 am • 1 0 • view
Globally his name will become the byword for corruption, cruelty and malicious incompetence. I expect all around the world history teachers will teach about MAGA like they did the rise of the Nazis.
aug 30, 2025, 7:18 am • 0 0 • view
Except, he is grand example for teaching why the Founders constructed the Constitution the way they did. And in that, he will be debased and ridiculed as a failure.
aug 29, 2025, 9:40 pm • 1 0 • view
If teachers use Trump as an example of what the Constitution was designed to protect us against, they will also have to teach how and why it failed to do that. I think that latter bit is the more important lesson.
aug 30, 2025, 2:25 am • 2 0 • view
I think both of these are important lessons.
aug 30, 2025, 3:39 am • 2 0 • view
No argument. But is the Constitution itself the failure?
aug 31, 2025, 2:21 pm • 1 0 • view
The Constitution is like the Ford Model T. A groundbreaking invention in its time, it served its purpose for many years and can still be driven today. But it's not designed for today's needs, which its inventors did not anticipate. Tweaks (amendments) to the base design can only help so much.
aug 31, 2025, 3:36 pm • 0 0 • view
Jefferson foresaw exactly this when he recommended to Madison the Constitution be rewritten every 19 years (it would be a little longer using today's average lifespan). He reasoned amendments ultimately would not be sufficient. One can love the Constitution but still see the need for it to change.
aug 31, 2025, 3:36 pm • 0 0 • view
I hope he’s vilified 100x worse than Woodrow Wilson or Nixon ever were. Just having that last name needs to be such a black mark that his descendants decide to legally change theirs
aug 29, 2025, 7:51 pm • 3 0 • view
As long as they teach about Jim Crow, we will be fine!
aug 29, 2025, 7:31 pm • 10 1 • view
A law is in order banning saying the name Trump just like the Germans made the Hitler salute illegal. He deserves no place in history. Put him in the category of a banned book.
aug 29, 2025, 7:57 pm • 1 0 • view
No. The story needs to be told, warts and all.
aug 30, 2025, 3:33 am • 0 0 • view
This high level trolling.
aug 30, 2025, 4:20 am • 0 0 • view
I don’t teach American history. But I always teach failure.
aug 29, 2025, 9:49 pm • 0 0 • view
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sep 1, 2025, 3:03 am • 0 0 • view
They will refer to him m as the biggest mistake America ever made.
aug 29, 2025, 7:32 pm • 3 0 • view
Twice
aug 29, 2025, 7:47 pm • 1 0 • view
Just ignore him completely because he has not done one positive thing for this country. We currently live in a sh*thole.🤨🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
aug 29, 2025, 7:49 pm • 1 0 • view
No. The entire problem is that he wasn't taken seriously in the first place. If anything, students should have to spend an entire semester on Trump alone, so that they fully understand what happened and (far more importantly) WHY. Also, how.
aug 30, 2025, 3:38 am • 0 0 • view
MAGA wants America’s children to be stupid and only learn what they feel is important. How will our children and grandchildren be able to compete with foreign students? Very sad 😢
aug 29, 2025, 7:47 pm • 4 1 • view
I don't think parents will ever want their children exposed to the filth that is Trump.
aug 29, 2025, 7:33 pm • 1 0 • view
like they limit what they teach about Ronnie Raygun
aug 30, 2025, 2:47 am • 1 0 • view
They should teach this, just like they teach the Holocaust. He should be remembered with the likes of the ilk of humanity.
aug 30, 2025, 8:35 am • 1 0 • view
I sure wouldn’t. That sounds like a hill worth dying on.
aug 29, 2025, 9:42 pm • 0 0 • view
I fucking hope not, if the country survives, it will be imperative to teach kids how we nearly made it crash and burn.
aug 29, 2025, 10:31 pm • 3 0 • view
Or he will be lauded a hero a la Jefferson, Adams and Jackson This is amerikkka
aug 30, 2025, 12:22 am • 0 0 • view
I’m pretty sure Oklahoma’s public school curriculum teaches that the 2020 election was rigged and stolen from Trump. www.npr.org/2025/05/14/n...
aug 29, 2025, 9:06 pm • 0 0 • view
May his memory be removed from the annals of history and his face blackened out for all time.
aug 29, 2025, 10:23 pm • 0 0 • view
Wouldn't you?
aug 29, 2025, 10:07 pm • 0 0 • view
Or hopefully tell the truth about him and he’ll be like Benedict Arnold an accursed name in American history. Nobody remembers the hero Benedict Arnold was in the battle of Saratoga in Revolutionary War or other battles before his defection, just his treasonous act of defection.
aug 30, 2025, 1:27 am • 1 0 • view
We need to teach what a fascist he is and how he hates is own coumtry!
aug 29, 2025, 7:36 pm • 9 1 • view
Are those the three boys from that Tim the Tool Man show?
aug 29, 2025, 8:02 pm • 1 0 • view
And Andrew Jackson, the orange blob's fave.
aug 29, 2025, 7:54 pm • 1 0 • view
I’ll never forget one my students saying (after learning about Jackson), “Wow, he was a bad man.”
aug 30, 2025, 1:10 am • 0 0 • view
I certainly hope not. They should treat him like the scourge he is and repeat it endlessly. We shouldn’t forget this moment in history so that we don’t have to repeat it.
aug 29, 2025, 7:32 pm • 11 0 • view
Paul that’s a good one. 👍
aug 29, 2025, 8:10 pm • 1 0 • view
Not sure I agree. This mess, if we get through it will result in a lot of changes in laws, the constitution and the Supreme Court. This is history that will be a, must be taught event, maybe on par with the Civil War.
aug 30, 2025, 4:39 am • 0 0 • view
History not learned is history doomed to be repeated
aug 29, 2025, 7:47 pm • 13 0 • view
To clarify, I don't theoretically disagree with you. But I'm frustrated that it didn't work out in practice.
aug 30, 2025, 3:35 am • 0 0 • view
We all know about Hitler, and yet here we are.
aug 30, 2025, 3:31 am • 0 0 • view
Absolutely 💯
aug 29, 2025, 7:48 pm • 4 0 • view
We need to teach the next generation about how and why so many Americans fell for that con artist-thug
aug 29, 2025, 7:54 pm • 3 0 • view
We should never forget
aug 30, 2025, 12:54 am • 1 0 • view
They want you stupid
aug 29, 2025, 7:42 pm • 3 0 • view
Unless we follow Germany’s lead about how they teach about Nazism & the Holocaust. So it 𝓷𝓮𝓿𝓮𝓻 happens again.
aug 29, 2025, 7:46 pm • 6 1 • view
Speaking of trump, where is he? Don't think he's been seen since Tues, that Dear Leader eulogy fest of a cabinet meeting. Yesterday VP No Name said he's ready to take over as prez...🤔🤨
aug 29, 2025, 7:34 pm • 3 0 • view
Add Andrew Jackson and Reagan to the mix. And Shrub Sr pardoning all of the Iran/Contra thugs. I’m still pissed.
aug 29, 2025, 7:42 pm • 2 0 • view
Maybe we won't be here when the teachings of tRump happen but I'd like to think this was great lesson and the truth would be told. I'm not naive, I see how this web was spun, but I "hope." It never could've happened without evangelicals, billionaires and all the racists among us.
aug 31, 2025, 12:29 pm • 0 0 • view
Maybe that’s a mistake. How can we learn from our mistakes if we ignore them.
aug 29, 2025, 7:51 pm • 4 0 • view
Didn't Germany do that for decades about the Nazis?
aug 29, 2025, 8:36 pm • 0 0 • view
They need to teach about these assholes so that the next generation doesn't get sucked in by people like them!!
aug 29, 2025, 7:31 pm • 27 0 • view
Agreed. Shed light on these assholes as much as schools teach the atrocities of the Holocaust in History class.
aug 29, 2025, 8:24 pm • 2 0 • view
They should teach it like they would about Hitler.
aug 30, 2025, 12:51 am • 1 0 • view
Don't think so friend. Trump exists in a very different era.
aug 30, 2025, 1:37 am • 0 0 • view
I dunno, seems like a fascist take over by an adjudicated rapist might be kind of a big deal in history class
aug 29, 2025, 7:42 pm • 3 0 • view
Donald Trump, while part of American history, has no fucking business being taught in schohols.
aug 29, 2025, 9:10 pm • 0 0 • view
History, if forgotten, is doomed to repeat itself.
aug 30, 2025, 12:04 am • 1 0 • view
Then he needs to be taught as a reminder of how BAD things can get if not careful.
aug 30, 2025, 6:04 pm • 0 0 • view
Yeah. That's history. Otherwise you're just teaching mythology, which is how we got here in the first place. Our history classes, especially at younger ages, is just idealized mythology.
aug 30, 2025, 7:20 pm • 1 0 • view
That's all he deserves: a masterclass on what NOT to do.
aug 31, 2025, 12:55 am • 1 0 • view
*schools*
aug 29, 2025, 9:10 pm • 0 0 • view
... not to mention Christopher Columbus.
aug 30, 2025, 12:26 pm • 0 0 • view
aug 29, 2025, 7:41 pm • 2 1 • view
I hope his grandchildren change their name
aug 30, 2025, 1:04 am • 0 0 • view
I’m listening to an audio book now called “Lies My Teacher Told Me”. All I can say is EVERYONE should read/listen to it!
aug 29, 2025, 7:34 pm • 1 0 • view
Got it and use it to double-check what I teach. Can’t imagine what’ll look like when they reprint it!
aug 30, 2025, 1:11 am • 1 0 • view